i'm sorry it was a big issue. tonight a passenger plane overshoots the runway and crashes into one of moscow's main highways only eight crew members of thought have been on board the plane at the time four of them were killed four were injured. hello very good evening she if you just joined us this is our team my name is kevin owen well one story dominating our coverage tonight the breaking news to bring you up to date with if you just joined us a passenger plane on the sea then about three and a half hours ago overshot the runway at

a moscow airport has claimed at least four lives these are the pictures over my shoulder here of the devastation. topalov plane that it appears overshot the runway and ended up in the middle of a. eight or ten lane highway it's the main road from moscow to kiev you can imagine the devastation there the only slight better good news i guess that plane wasn't loaded with passengers at the moment the estimation is there are only eight people on board that all of them crew members there on board the jet which can carry more than two hundred passengers when it's operating at full capacity now this russian airliner plowed into the side of a major highway as you can see the images from the scene the airline company that ran that plane was a company called red wings it's owned part owned anyway and operated by tycoon alexander lebedev a lot of information of course came through in the early stages on twitter and from social networks these are the latest pictures we have got. through the. it's

a miracle we're still trying to find out some more information but judging by how busy the road could be it's a normal working day albeit a saturday here in moscow today it's normal working day leading up to those holidays road would have been absolutely packed with people heading out of moscow maybe to the duchess or maybe going towards the the ukraine area to spend the holidays we haven't heard one bit of fortune at least at the moment of any casualties on the roadway there when we got our correspondent on the scenes of course let's catch up with maria for she's our correspondent made away very quickly the best way she could to pour. the train she's there now maria can you bring us up to date with what is going on the airport now obviously at the time you were on board with a lot of passengers that were having to fly over themselves for the holidays what do we know what's being said at the airport what's the general feeling there at the

moment. well in small busiest airport and of course clearly it is even busier right now here because people are although there have been reports earlier that the flights departing from these efforts will be delayed people are continuing to come here and express trains that carry. really many people here but their flights are delayed and of course it's quite crowded here. of the airport where they crashed a plane was expected to land clearly has been closed following the incident and planes expected to land here have either been canceled routed and we hear right now that at least nine of them have already landed at another minister alkaloids have been demoted or. else can you hear me kevin. as for departures of course it's clear it's very. hard to do some thing with the

airplanes that are expected to depart from these afterwards and we're here in announcements here almost every five minutes that all the flights have been delayed but at least till eight fifty pm which is in fifteen minutes that means i hope you can hear one of those announcements right now that means that within fifty or forty minutes even a runway off the local apple it will be opened and we're also hearing that passengers of the delayed flights have been provided with food and water and some of them i invited to. tower here at the new career applets will talk about the plane in a minute and what information you've got your side of course our thoughts very much with the friends and family of the brave and the injured tonight to talk about them just a moment it's running out of course to a big holiday weekend how busy is it at the airport today. it is quite nice and you

absolutely right to get here i too can express train that was coming from one of the railway stations here in moscow it's actually. really no ordinary it's the best way to get to the airport and they've been many people with me on that train because at that moment people were aware about what happened and they knew that the highway where. planes crashed into or was cordoned off and people on the train i've been able to speak to were actually very calm because. they did do they told me they they don't see any point can any for because they cannot do anything and they were very calmly coming to the airport and in full moon for nation for more details to come but of course since new year it's just we are

just hours away from the new year and people are ready for the new year salad holidays i do it to the winter holidays or some other stuff bad to really do i mean prices i was actually surprised to see how optimistic people were maybe because it's not the last day of two thousand and twelve but they have some time ahead so they're not afraid of. being late for new year. by find that their relatives and friends have been caught in them and asking where is going or what's going to happen with their flights and it seems to me that relatives and friends are and were much more concerned about the situation than the passengers themselves of course more than a line operating more than planes this plane i gather was only about four years old it had all the modern safety equipment the you'd expect in any modern jetliner these days what do we know about red wings and indeed the slight bit of good news

that's come out of this of course although we gather it was a part plane going towards the czech republic that didn't appear to be any passengers paying passengers on it coming back otherwise i guess the the injury toll the death toll could have been far far worse. that salute the red wings that is the russian charter company that is actually normally carrying tourists to different parts of the world absolutely different to europe to asia and everywhere around the go ugh but this time as far as we know and you are right so they were only eight crew members on both the plane and actually the investigation has been launched and it is about to it's yet to be. clarified why this airplane was almost empty because every asian expertise is saying that it's much harder to land an empty have plane than to to land.

the plane which is the. passengers on board that was the. airplane flying from the czech republic to moscow flight number actually nine to six or eight and. yes it is designed to carry more than two hundred people and of course ok tragedy maria we're going to let you go and get as much information as you can become about to throughout the course of the. reflection of for now from paul funk you well managed to find an eyewitness to what he. told us passers by were caught up in the accident hoping those people on the plane while they were waiting for emergency crews. i saw one woman all covered in blood it was the start attendant christina she said that the plane overshot the runway but they weren't carrying any passengers and that there is another surviving

flight attendant there the rescue unit came very fast but the ambulance couldn't get through because of the traffic so we gave the injured flight attendant first aid to our best knowledge called her mother to tell her she's ok wrapped a woman blankets and clothing we could find and even found a car to take her to hospital. i'm joined now in the studio by a correspond been following this closely look at the background of this model of plane either alexia's or said you know it's quite a new plane wasn't it on a bill in two thousand and eight as planes go as far as we know these planes that have all the usual safety that you'd expect in a. year well if you remember this tragedy several years ago which killed the polish president it was also the tupolev plane but way different plane but it was a different model certainly this particular model is very well enhanced according to its makers and has all the safety features and in fact its safety record is pretty good i mean just before this accident today's accident there had only been one case of function or anything when there was a crash landing two years ago and after that the makers of the aircraft actually

warned that there may be some problems during the landing some some some security problems with the equipment but other than that i mean the equipment has been described as absolutely top notch the plane has been described as a very stable and very safe so this is the first time the type of two or four plane has had any incident involving fatality just describing to me in our viewers who may not be sort of playing buffs if you like what kind of size of a plane is this is this like your average boeing seven through the work force of the skies or maybe an airbus a three twenty is about that size it's a closer to airbus a three twenty it carries more than two hundred passengers very widely used for charity flights of rushing to restore all major holiday destinations the company itself is a charter company it always brings russian tourists to difference in good sports recently those start i've just been reading and correct me if i'm wrong i think it recently started operating showed two flights as well from. two kaliningrad eternal flight of what we know about. alexander lebedev of course. definitely is

a russian billionaire it's one of his businesses i would say he is very well known in the west for owning several british newspapers including the evening standard. it's a good company after i've flown it several times it's a rather good stable company. it's been in the market for almost a decade now only now getting to the point where they can have regular flights as you just mentioned can you describe the highway that this plane ended up on it looks like it shut off the end of the runway for whatever reason we don't know was about where there wasn't a break to whatever whatever but it apparently ended up almost on this road i described it as a four lane or each way it's a busy big road is now i just took the steroid recently back from kenya when i was really into moscow so i know this for pretty well but the thing is like next to the airport they have a very steep i would say pit next to the next to the highway so the plane actually didn't get on the road on the highway itself it crashed into the pit next to the to the highway luckily maybe this is just

a security measure but luckily this helped to avoid probably many more casualties if any cars were passing by on the road absolutely and the other big news that came out of this of course i guess it could of been so much worse if that plane had been packed with passengers because they believe the reason given why didn't the passengers on this plane know and that's very interesting to find out but as far as i can understand it's has probably been a service flight probably they were taking the crew from the czech republic back to moscow that's why they had no regular passengers on board and what about the look at the airport a lot of people who fly internationally in and out of moscow they'll go from going to report maybe sure most of the airport in the north what is vnukovo mainly domestic airport are busy is it it is getting busy i just took a flight from a day we could go to paris so they're getting more and more international flights from the say a port they've built a completely new building which is completely high tech and very very well beautiful so it is getting busy and obviously now it's getting busier of the new year holiday the factional bit later i know you're getting across the information as well as it's coming in of course the details are still coming in this just about

four hours ago when our colleagues from a russian language news channel also spoke to a witness of the crash landing who helped one of the injured this is what he had to say. i was driving along the highway towards moscow when i saw the accident with my own eyes at the end of the runway there's a seventy metre long trench that separates the runway from the more scrutiny of highway so the plane overshot the runway and hit the trench with its nose and the news broke off approximately the place where they have business class and there was one person who dropped out of the plane onto the moscow kiev highway and the front wheel also broke off we helped to carry one injured we caught the tanks with the help of the police asked the people to leave it then we put this person in the camp which took him to the hospital. all right now we've got we're trying to catch up with more people as we're getting hold and finding out who was actually there were going to get hold of another eyewitness i believe alexander. he was at the accident

site when this happened about four hours ago alexander i'm not sure this has been translated or if you're speaking to read english with me you've now left the scene can you tell us if you can hear me what you saw earlier on today. the. lower where at the scene about half an hour after all happens. there were a lot of policeman there. that. was . just. next to the highway and the cockpit was. on the age of the highway are. about one hundred eighty degrees and everything costs without panic. the fire and police and c b you've got a car are i haven't seen any victims although there was there were several

ambulance. proceed and. early early reports were they still be corroborated early reports said that there may have been one or two people after that crash actually getting out of the plane on their own accord i'm although we hear the four at the we think there are eight people on the plane maybe another two but we certainly think there were eight on the plane we started think we know that four of them sadly perished today we believe two of them were the pilot and we believe the other four had serious head injuries they are being treated we'll find out more about them in the coming hours i'm sure can you just clarify for me for our viewers we heard from alexia cesky just now you've said the same thing this plane didn't actually end up than. on that busy highway it ended up in a pit very close to it at the end of the runway year yes that's exactly and what sort of road is this again i was trying to paint a picture it is

a very big busy highway obviously the shots with signal there are no cars on it it must have been a pretty how close was it to that the traffic that was passing was due to our it's now. is the busy this is the very busy highway are with several lanes of out of moscow and to moscow and are the cockpit is on the edge of the highway are over it's behind the wheel that's where there are several degrees on on the highway which is five and quickly through our off the highway and are open just one lane after about fifteen minutes when we came to the scene and. there were big traffic jam because everybody was stopping to see and police. they were just

making everybody move quickly alexander dose of thank you ever so much for making the time to be to be with us and tell us what you saw today would have shaken you up as well thank you very much appreciate it or rather wish you just joined the recapping our main story here r.t. tonight four people have been killed after a plane crashed into the side of one of moscow's main highways just about four hours ago this evening four others were injured as well all of them are in a serious condition with head injuries the red wings flight from the czech republic it appears overshot the runway at the city airport and plowed into the motorway or at least close to the four thirty five pm local time the planes right wing then immediately caught fire after the crash only eight people on board we think at the moment we think they were all crew members that plane of course is designed to carry more than two hundred times now although unconfirmed reports suggest two other people may be unaccounted for the captain is among the dead

a criminal case has been launched. well we're about with more news of course after this short break. what do you see when you look at the scroll perhaps you wonder what bright future she'll have or maybe you feel sympathy for her because you see she's in a wheelchair but if you're t.s.a. agent then you see hard core terrorists skull finding a small amount of residue from explosives on the girl's hands she was detained for almost an hour and her tears for mercy did not move the inspectors to allow her mother to be with her as they took her away for further inspection said that the t.s.a. agents can put two and two together and realize that people in wheelchairs get all sorts of random stuff on their hands because the wheels they push roll along the ground when will these endless tales of bizarre instance of the t.s.a.

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i. hello again welcome back this is one of course a plane crash and i just. as we get more information throughout the evening so it looks more international news now though the international peace envoy for syria says there are only two directions for the conflict a political process or hell and russia's foreign minister to meet me in moscow said

the syrian opposition is refusing to talk with the government paves the way for further bloodshed in offspring following the talks the biggest stumbling block in the syrian conflict right now is that the opposition is rejecting any compromise that president assad has to go while i sat himself says he's not going anywhere he's protecting his country and moscow says nobody is able to persuade him to change his mind and neither side is willing to put its weapons down if. you know the only alternative is. really. on the political process then we have all of us to work seriously for the political process mr brahimi added that this should be a syrian allowed political process which should be based on agreements reached by world powers in geneva and they include forming a transitional government which could include all sides of the conflict but the

opposition is not only on the willing to negotiate with the syrian authorities it's now rejecting direct talks with moscow which has been trying to be a mediator and we've heard from the leader of the recently established opposition coalition who demanded moscow to apologize for what he said was support for president assad if an emotional response i understand that mr hottie of his probably not very experienced in politics if he's looking to be a serious politician it is in his interests to hear our position from us and not from the media that sometimes distorts information so i'll repeat we're ready to talk to all opposition forces but we start from the premise that they should not only think about their own ambitions but also the fate of the syrian people and if they think that russia could play a role in the country's tragedy they should meet our representatives without preconditions on notice meanwhile the violence is continuing to ask syria there have been more terrorist attacks the rebels have been also attacking states

military air strips of while government troops have been responding with more shelling. you're piskun off some other world news the clock's ticking for the u.s. when it goes on avoiding that so-called fiscal cliff again produced no result no if the republicans and democrats failed to reach a deal on how to reduce the national deficit tax hikes and spending cuts with billions of dollars automatically take effect on the first another round of talks it shows you will for saturday barack obama's really considering an emergency bill for low earners and employed if agreement isn't reached before that deadline. the six men involved in a gang rape of a student in india have been charged with murder now just hours after the victim died in hospital if convicted all could face the death penalty the case about protests in new delhi with the authorities resorting to banning mass gatherings in parts of the city people still joining to express their anger while demanding extreme measures to keep the streets safe. it's been

a turbulent year for russian politics with putin's come back to the kremlin met by big opposition rallies plus pussy riots infamous cathedral performance protest on the court case that followed that that split russian society well here's how some of the r.t. staff including me covered it all in twenty twelve. presidential election twenty three cameras up on this roof correspondents throughout moscow and i mean you come across lines throughout the night was a great night was. the real color was right behind us was me but but so one point when putin came out to show me like crowds a costume of the thousands and thousands of people also celebrating his victory one

of the main points the unprecedented protests that took place to that election and protest rallies that never really feels like we're actually taking part in the event it was during one of the massive protests rallies in moscow square really fifty for the first time when i saw the crowd want to see the truck parked right next to ours in another station and i realized how soon was people really turned uncontrollable or was second and they'll come in just as easily. really a group of people trying to get political points in the past twelve months. the best way to do that would be about. the one thing that was important to get across covering it is that people's political flavors in this country the fact was that what they did was deeply offensive to a huge number of people not something that. when they were looking at the case.

when they made a press release dowd's our interview with president putin the first that he's ever given he's stirred inauguration we see dozens and dozens of calls from international media representatives and they were all asking us just one question did he say anything about the case nothing in fact the more challenging it is the conversation would be of course not. a big list in my head i want to hear about his thoughts on the ongoing syrian conflict also whether the punishment the push the right pump but it was a date with hindsight maybe too heavy had some interesting comments to make about that ad what he thought about the russian opposition movement one of the big stories of the year the streets are available for protests that is for sure and i think it's good that people are conscious about politics well politics is not a big deal among most people here in this country would want to be getting the planes elected only be good for society and i think the the authorities reacted with relatively low.

it's twenty seven minutes per say that my moscow time quite recover main story of the day now from the four people have been killed after a plane crashed into the side of one of moscow's main highways are about four hours ago four others were injured there all of them are in a serious condition with head injuries the red wings flight from the czech republic overshot the runway the city's vnukovo airport a four thirty five pm local time only eight people all and crew members are thought of been on board that stricken plane at the time which can carry more than two hundred passengers when it's fully laden the captain is among the dead we hear a criminal case has been launched ok be fully updated on this information comes in throughout the night this is r.t. . well with. this month's high tech means good health whether it be the latest laser cutters or lifesaving heart valves russian innovators are working hard to keep you

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